{"id":15161,"date":"2026-06-01T01:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/to-beat-drugs-ladakh-opens-up-for-liquor-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T01:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:49:19","slug":"to-beat-drugs-ladakh-opens-up-for-liquor-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/to-beat-drugs-ladakh-opens-up-for-liquor-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"To beat drugs, Ladakh opens up for liquor | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131427754,imgsize-795531,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/article-61.jpg\" alt=\"To beat drugs, Ladakh opens up for liquor\" title=\"Representative image\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>SRINAGAR: Liquor will now be available in Ladakh, where only beer, wine and ready-to-drink beverages were permitted so far for retail sale through vends, except in Leh where there was no partial prohibition.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>Lt Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has approved the new excise policy for the UT which \u201caims at curbing the growing dependence on narcotics and drugs and giving people a wider choice of low alcoholic content liquor in Ladakh region\u201d.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>To improve accessibility and ensure regulated availability, 20 liquor vends will be opened through e-auction. Earlier, only two liquor vends were operational in Ladakh.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>A govt statement said the new policy comes after extensive meetings with civil society organisations, NGOs, religious organisations, public representatives and officials in recent months.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/to-beat-drugs-ladakh-opens-up-for-liquor\/articleshow\/131427670.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR: Liquor will now be available in Ladakh, where only beer, wine and ready-to-drink beverages were permitted so far for retail sale through vends, except in Leh where there was no partial prohibition.Lt Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has approved the new excise policy for the UT which \u201caims at curbing the growing dependence on narcotics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}